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Ulbricht's trial is set to start next month, and we can no doubt expect the legal drama to continue in force. The problem with this tactic is its potential to diminish the fairness of a trial, which largely relies on a defendant knowing how the evidence against them was obtained. Some, including Graham, therefore suggest a case of 'parallel construction' could be at play-when evidence is presented as obtained in one way to support a court case, but has in fact been sourced by other means.įor example, last year Reuters reported that the DEA used 'parallel construction' to hide when their investigations originated with a tip-off from NSA surveillance. 'As an expert in such topics as sniffing passwords and masscaning the Internet, I know that tracking down the Silk Road site is well within the NSA's capabilities,' Graham wrote.īut the prosecution has maintained it was the FBI, and not the NSA, that found the server. He also says that the logs provided in the new evidence don't match up with the pages described in Tarbell's declaration.

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If the FBI or an assisting government agency like the NSA were monitoring connections to and from Iceland, where it turned out the admin pages were being hosted, 'they could easily have discovered the password and used it to log onto the server.'Īs for finding that PHPMyAdmin page, 'One way this could have been found is by scanning the entire Internet for SSL servers, then searching for the string 'Silkroad' in the resulting webpage,' Graham writes. He gets into the technical grit around the evidence, and suggests that the logs point to something else, perhaps monitoring of internet ports. Not long after, Julia visited Ross’ campus office, where they couldn’t help but kiss and fall. Robert Graham of Errata Security took that up on his blog. Julia was 18, a free-spirited freshman, and when she noticed Ross she felt a powerful attraction. If the FBI didn't find the server because of a leaky CAPTCHA, how did it find a PHPMyAdmin page instead?

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He suggested that the logs didn't show the FBI getting an IP address from a leaky CAPTCHA, but a PHPMyAdmin configuration page. Read the full filing from the prosecution in the Silk Road case below, and at bottom, the letter from Tarbell explaining how the FBI discovered the location of the Silk Road site. The FBI also provided the defense with the traffic logs from the Silk Road server, but Weaver didn't like the look of those either. The prosecution has maintained it was the FBI, and not the NSA, that found the server. Weaver claimed that because of the way the Silk Road website was set up-with a front-end server and a back-end server, and only data from the former being able to reach the latter-it would actually have been impossible for someone fiddling with the CAPTCHA on the login page to reach the back-end server. Nicolas Weaver from the International Computer Science Institute and the University of California, Berkley, took particular issue with a configuration file that was taken from the seized Silk Road servers. Brian Krebs, a renowned security and cybercrime journalist, uploaded the government's responses to the web and asked an expert to weigh in.

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